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No. 226,009 Patented Mar. 30, I880.

Inventor:

NYPEKEH5, PHOTO-UTNOGRAFHER. WASMKNGTON. D. C.

NITED FFICEQ PHILIP H. WENDEL, OF PENDLETON CENTRE, NEW YORK.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,009, dated March 30, 1880.

Application filed February 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PHILIP H. WENDEL, of Pendleton Centre, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on a Gar Ooupling and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to carcouplings of that class employing hooks to make connection; and it consists in the peculiar construction of parts and combination of elements, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already referred to, Figure l is a sectional elevation in line 2 z of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an end view of a portion of a car with my coupling attached. Fig. 3 is a plan. Fig.4 is a perspective view of the draw-bar detached.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

A is the usual car-body, having the common draw timber B. This draw-timber is beveled on its under side at U, and attached to itis a U-shaped draw-bar, D, of a width corresponding to that of said draw-timber. Nearone side of the part E of said draw-bar is provided a circular part, F, to which is pivoted a hook, Gr, having the usual barb in front and a curved tail, H, said tail being arranged to rest against the beveled part of the draw-timber when the hook engages the opposite bar E.

To theface of the draw-timber is pivoted a bell-crank lever, I, the short arm I of which connects the hook G, near its front end, with said lever by means of a chain, K.

The width of the draw-bar is more than double that of the hooks, so as to afford ample space for engagement of the opposite hook upon the bar E.

It will now be readily observed that the barbed part of the hook G being heavier than the tail H,the hooks will always occupy a horizontal position, and that the cars, when pushed together, are readily engaged by said hooks.

One of the advantages of my car-coupling is its extreme simplicity and cheapness, while its action is perfectly satisfactory.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent The combination, with the draw-timber B of a car, having the beveled part 0, of the U- shaped draw-bar D E, provided with the hook Gr, pivoted to the part E, and having the curved tail H, constructed to engage the beveled part 0, and the bell-crank leverI, pivoted to the face of the draw-timber and connected with the hook by a chain, K, the whole being constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose stated.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto setmy hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIP H. WENDEL.

Attest MIoHAEL J. STARK, HATTIE L. WALKER. 

